Italian Modernities

Competing Narratives of Nationhood

Nonfiction, History, Reference, Historiography, Italy
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Author: Rosario Forlenza, Bjørn Thomassen ISBN: 9781137492128
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US Publication: September 30, 2016
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Language: English
Author: Rosario Forlenza, Bjørn Thomassen
ISBN: 9781137492128
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication: September 30, 2016
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: English

This book argues that Italy represents a privileged entry point into the comparative analysis of ideologies and experiences of modernity. The book compares how thinkers and politicians belonging to different ideological clusters - Liberalism, Communism, Fascism, Chistian Democracy - came to formulate multiple and often antagonistic visions of Italy's road to the modern. By revisiting Italian political history from the late nineteenth century until the present with a focus on transition periods, Italian Modernities explores how competing historical narratives influenced shifting understandings of Italian nationhood, thus foregrounding the active role of memory politics in the formulation of multiple modernities.

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This book argues that Italy represents a privileged entry point into the comparative analysis of ideologies and experiences of modernity. The book compares how thinkers and politicians belonging to different ideological clusters - Liberalism, Communism, Fascism, Chistian Democracy - came to formulate multiple and often antagonistic visions of Italy's road to the modern. By revisiting Italian political history from the late nineteenth century until the present with a focus on transition periods, Italian Modernities explores how competing historical narratives influenced shifting understandings of Italian nationhood, thus foregrounding the active role of memory politics in the formulation of multiple modernities.

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